On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> But creating fly-bys of the planets using framed animation would be
> a ton of work, and probably not worth the effort.
>
Agreed, and especially so given that I would need to be able to zoom in
indefinitely, since the ship can land on the pl
Without the distortion that normally occurs with anything that wraps around
a sphere, getting things to look 3D is pretty ineffective. Adding shading
around the edge of a circle somewhat simulates distortion, which is what
produces the (fake) 3D appearance.
You can sort of fake planet rotation in
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Bob Sneidar
wrote:
> I should point out, (and forgive me if this was obvious) that the graphic
> is not 3D. It's two masked images going by in different directions, but on
> the left and right there is no "wrapping" so to speak.
>
I get that. At the point I aban
I should point out, (and forgive me if this was obvious) that the graphic is
not 3D. It's two masked images going by in different directions, but on the
left and right there is no "wrapping" so to speak.
Bob S
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 15:24 , Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:0
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Richmond
wrote:
> I wonder why stuff like that is not more accessible?
>
Same here. I wish I had seen this back when I was fooling around with a 3D
space simulation. I was having some trouble getting the general rendering
correct, and despaired of being able to
On 30/12/15 21:23, Scott Rossi wrote:
Don't know if this works on Linux, but for an example you can see here:
http://newsletters.livecode.com/april/issue90/newsletter3.php
The link at the end of the article still works (message box):
go url
"http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/glass
Don't know if this works on Linux, but for an example you can see here:
http://newsletters.livecode.com/april/issue90/newsletter3.php
The link at the end of the article still works (message box):
go url
"http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/glass_globe/globedemo.rev";
Regards,
Scott
On 30/12/15 17:56, Richmond wrote:
I have just been here:
http://support.wacom.com/
to really understand what I am getting at you have to download the
whole webpage.
The page employs a round mask with a rectangular map behind it to give
a rather nice
impression of the globe.
I am sure tha
I have just been here:
http://support.wacom.com/
to really understand what I am getting at you have to download the whole
webpage.
The page employs a round mask with a rectangular map behind it to give a
rather nice
impression of the globe.
I am sure that to a lot of readers of this use-li
